Letter: Swing vote may decide election

Editor: A recent poll found that 63 percent of Republicans still believe Weapons of Mass Destruction were found in Iraq. The poll also found that 64 percent of Republicans believe President Obama was born in another country. (Update: Hawaii, the president’s place of birth, became the 50th state of the union 1960.)

And a recent Fairleigh Dickinson University study found that viewers who watch only Fox News are the least informed people in the country.

The study shows that those who watch Fox News are more uninformed than those who don’t watch any news at all. Among those who did the best in the study are people who only listened to NPR or watched Sunday morning talk shows or “The Daily Show”, with John Stewart.

In other under-reported news: In May, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the perpetrators of the Weapons of Mass Destruction fraud in Iraq, former President George W. Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and five of their legal advisors were “found guilty of war crimes for torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners who suffered at the hands of U.S. Soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq.”

How does this all add up and why is it relevant in this election year? By all appearances, if you vote Republican, your understanding of issues and events is distorted by your choice of news sources and by your acceptance of myth masquerading as fact.

If you’re an independent, undecided swing voter whose choice may well decide the election this fall, sound judgment would have you cast your ballot for common sense rather than the delusional magical thinking apparently commonplace among a majority of Republican voters.

If in doubt, review the results of where eight years of Bush/Cheney took us.

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You're absolutely right, Greg. Studies have also been done on the brains of the republican right. Chris Mooney wrote a book called, The Republican Brain - The Science of Why They Deny Science-And Reality. The studies themselves are interesting, but the upshot is that the more republicans are proven wrong, the harder they dig in their heels and continue to spout bumper sticker slogans while vilifying liberals. But they do it in the name of God so how do we reason with that? Fact or fiction, what better role model than Jesus, who was everything that republicans hate?

i guess it depends on your definition of "weapons of mass destruction":

from wikipedia:
These munitions meet the technical definition of weapons of mass destruction, according to the commander of the National Ground Intelligence Center. "These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes ... they do constitute weapons of mass destruction," Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee. The munitions addressed in the report were produced in the 1980s, Maples said. Badly corroded, they could not currently be used as originally intended, though agent remaining in the weapons would be very valuable to terrorists and insurgents, Maples said.

and in other news, a recent poll found that 66% of democrats polled, believed that the economy was hunky dory, top shelf, okey dokey, and tickety boo.

the same poll found 100% of the respondents believed that joe biden was smarter than your av-er-age bear, that good television was a right and not a privilege and, that the tea party movement was lousy with gas bags, nincompoops and mental midgets.

all those who participated in the poll expressed their dislike for poles and that they preferred to hang out with italians and russians.

Does it surprise you that listening to FOX truncates brain activity? I am a long standing Republican and I have found that FOX and other very extreme groups and people have infiltrated the real GOP. I am moving over to the Democrats this year because of all the hate and negative spewings coming from those hate-mongers who are hiding behind the GOP.